Thursday, March 27, 2008

HELP DESPERATELY NEEDED

UPDATE: JASON X wins the day as the most obvious miss from the list.  I've updated the list with what people (well, let's be honest, what JASON) have added, and added an asterisk to the Empire entry, again courtesy Jason.

I'm trying to compile a comprehensive list of movies (and TV episodes) that feature suspended animation. Here's the list so far:

MOVIES:
• 2001
• Planet of the Apes (both)
• Alien
• Lost in Space
• Rocketman
• Minority Report
• Judge Dredd
• Demolition Man
• Sleeper
• Empire Strikes Back
• Idiocracy
• Event Horizon
• Solstice
• Solaris (original)
• Red Planet
• X Files
• Batman and Robin
• Austin Powers
• Forever Young
• Live Again, Die Again
• Jason X
• Strange New World

TV SERIES:
• Futurama
• Farscape
• Star Trek ("Space Seed" - the episode with Khan)
• Buck Rogers
• Twilight Zone episode "Quarantine" (nice catch, Kathryn)

Sequels don't count (Aliens and Return of the Jedi are OUT). Neither do movies where things are frozen and come back to life when thawed (like The Thing or Brendan Fraser in Encino Man), though that may be a good follow-up list.

There are no prizes and there is no reason I'm compiling this list. It just started as a conversation in Louisiana, continued tonight, and I feel like I'm missing some. So jump in in comments.

12 comments:

Unknown said...

Live Again, Die Again

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Unknown said...

Firefly...maybe...The Episode "The Message" a their war buddy had suspended his body by use of a drug...I don't think that counts

Unknown said...

Buck Rogers (tv show)

Unknown said...

Strange New World

Anonymous said...

You said no sequels, but you blatantly have Empire Strikes Back on there. This list is ruined!

kandyd said...

No, because Han Solo only gets put in carbonite in Empire. Jedi would be the sequel to Empire that ALSO has Han in carbonite.

Anonymous said...

Dude:

Encino Man!

Anonymous said...

And the Twilight Zone episode "Quarantine"

And South Park episode "Go and Go"

Anonymous said...


Here's
a link for Quarantine:


And the South Park is actually titled "Go GOD Go" where Cartman freezes himself so he doesn't have to wait for the Wii to be released.

Anonymous said...

Crap. As usual, I failed to read all the directions.

F! Fail!

Anonymous said...

Well Han was "Frozen in carbonite" - not exactly in suspended animation, so it still doesn't deserve to be on this list.

And don't forget "Night of the Creeps". Or "Jason X". Yeah, you heard me - "Jason X".